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Re: Thought I had this figured out and then.....

Method names, like Power(), do not usually begin with a capital letter or have the same name as the class unless a constructor. Some resist the use of Java's naming conventions or wonder at the value of using them, but this is one of those occasions when it's clear to guess the source of an error simply because of a naming convention violation.